Littering
Tossing cigarette butts on the ground is considered what environmental issue?
What is littering?
An addictive chemical in cigarettes that is responsible for addiction.
What is nicotine?
Planting these helps absorb carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen.
What are trees?
This term describes smoke that is inhaled and negatively impacts nearby non-smokers.
What is secondhand smoke?
Animals can mistake cigarette butts for __.
What is food?
This small item is the most littered object in the world.
What is a cigarette?
Multiple choice: How many chemicals are in a cigarette?
a. 50 b. 200 c. 7000 d. 1 million
What is c. 7000+?
Harmful toxins in cigarettes seep into the ground and affect this.
What is soil?
This disease is strongly linked to smoking.
What is lung cancer?
Birds are seen to use cigarette butts in their nests, which exposes their babies to __.
What are toxins?
Multiple choice: How many pounds of cigarette butts are thrown away every year?
a. 50 pounds b. 12,000 pounds c. 750,000 pounds d. 175 million pounds
What is d. 175 million pounds?
What chemical in cigarettes is also used as rat poison?
What is arsenic?
This layer of the atmosphere protects Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
Most lifelong smokers start smoking during what age?
What is teenage years/before 18?
Improperly discarded cigarettes can cause these types of disasters, especially in dry areas.
What are wildfires?
This process describes how toxic chemicals from cigarette butts leach into soil and waterways.
What is chemical pollution?
A harmful gas in cigarette smoke that also comes out of car exhaust and reduces oxygen in the blood.
What is carbon monoxide?
This biome, often called the "lungs of the Earth," is rapidly shrinking due to deforestation.
What is the Amazon rainforest?
This substance in cigarettes builds up in the lungs, because of smoking.
What is tar?
When animals digest cigarettes, it can lead to this.
What is choking/starvation?
T or F: Cigarettes are biodegradable.
What is false?
Manufacturing cigarettes emits how much CO2 each year?
a. 42 million metric tons b. 84 million metric tons c. 102 billion metric tons
What is b. 84 million metric tons?
Growing tobacco crops requires heavy fertilizers which leads to __.
What is soil degradation/ soil losing nutrients?
Smoking is bad for this organ that helps you breathe.
What are lungs?
Littered cigarettes get carried into oceans and bodies of water through __.
What is rain/storm drains?